The Jest, 1919

The run closed June 14, 1919

Opened

April 9, 1919

Closed

June 14, 1919

Performances

77

Previews

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Theatre

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 364th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Jest 1 more that season

Who was in it15 named

E J Ballantine
John Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore
George Casselberry
Cecil Clovelly
Rankin Davenport
Maude Durand
Arthur Forrest
Alexander F Frank
Maude Hanaford
Paul Irving
Jacob Kingsberry
Martha Mcgraw
H Charles Smith
Gilda Varesi

0 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Producer

Arthur Hopkins

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for The Jest at all.
• No director named.
• No show page for The Jest. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.